These are some words from Inglorious (written in 2014), they are the imagined words of an ex-gamekeeper writing of the demise of driven grouse shotoing p253-54): ‘In the end, with all that satellite-tag stuff, you could hardly point your shotgun at a bird of prey without fearing it might be a tagged bird that…
Category: THE WILDLIFE NGOs – RSPB, Wildlife Trusts Wild Justice, BSBI etc
Macca and the Stoats
Press release from RSPB and SNH The Orkney Native Wildlife Project, which is a partnership between Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) and RSPB Scotland, aims to protect Orkney’s native wildlife by removing stoats, an invasive non-native predator that was first recorded in Orkney in 2010. Stoats are native to the UK Mainland but not…
Nice bag RSPB
It was good to see tht my Nature’s Home magazine (it’s still a ghastly name) came through the letterbox in a compostable wrapper. Well done RSPB! The wrapper says that you can recycle it in four ways: Put it in your compost heap Put it in your green garden waste bin Put it in…
Cool Coul news
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Good news for Coul Links – a pause, if not a reprieve. See also: Conservation partnership unites to protect precious dune habitat in Sutherland from development, 30 August 2016 and Not at all cool at Coul , 7 November 2017. Press release issued yesterday afternoon by RSPB, Plantlife, Buglife, Scottish Wildlife Trust, National…
Seen at Frampton Marsh RSPB nature reserve
The RSPB seems to be working its Sedge Warblers to death these days. Not seen at Frampton Marsh on Saturday morning (not by me anyway): Red-necked Phalarope, Pectoral Sandpiper, Curlew Sands. Seen at Frampton Marsh on Saturday morning (by me anyway): Painted Lady, Spoonbill, Whooper Swan, thousands of Black-tailed Godwits, Little Stint, Spotted Redshanks, Wood…
Press release from Suffolk Wildlife Trust (and Plantlife)
Critically endangered fen orchid flowers for first time in 40 years Beautiful fenland species returns from localised extinction following pioneering work by Plantlife and Suffolk Wildlife Trust The critically endangered fen orchid has flowered for the first time in Suffolk since 1975. The return of the rare orchid, which was locally extinct and whose location cannot…
Start the rewilding now Mr Gove – the people have spoken.
On a hot summer’s night the people spoke – the vote at the end of last night’s rewilding debate in London was 52% in favour of rewilding the uplands and a mere 39% against. If 52% (actually a smidgeon under) v 48% (actually a smidgeon over, and without counting the don’t knows and did not…
Press release from National Trust
England’s lucky omen? It’s our tern now – rare sea bird visits Farne Islands for first time since 1966 A rare seabird has “come home” for the first time since 1966 – just as England’s footballers hope to repeat the nation’s World Cup heroics of the same year. The sooty tern, usually only found in the…
National Trust makes meadow purchase in the White Peak
National Trust Press Release Lifeline for plunging wildlife as important hay meadows saved in the Peak District The National Trust has purchased 186 hectares (460 acres) of wildflower-rich farmland in the Peak District – securing a potential lifeline for plunging butterfly and bee populations. As Britain marks National Meadows Day, the conservation charity…
BBS done for this year.
I completed the second survey for my second BBS square the other day. Very few birds on this visit – amazingly few actually. Even few Carrion Crows and few Wood Pigeons. And yet I added a new species to the site (this was my 14th year of surveys here) – a very topical Raven. Maybe…